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Asteroid mining could support space economies ... - CBC News

A team of researchers are planning to send robotic spacecraft into outer space, land near asteroids hurtling through the abyss and mine them for water, metals and other elements that will make colonizing space that much easier. Science columnist Torah Kachur explains. Why do we need to mine ...

Asteroid Redirect Mission | NASA

NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.

Asteroid Database and Mining Rankings - Asterank

Asterank is a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids. We've collected, computed, or inferred important data such as asteroid mass and composition from multiple scientific sources. With this information, we esti

Mining for asteroids will be the next gold rush - New York Post

Forget cryptocurrency — the next big "gold rush" isn't even on Earth. Physicist Michio Kaku, writing in his new book "The Future of Humanity" (Doubleday), believes a bonanza is coming from mining asteroids, which he calls "flying gold mine[s] in outer space." NASA defines asteroids ...

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Asteroid mining - Wikipedia

Asteroid mining is the exploitation of raw materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects.. Minerals can be mined from an asteroid or spent comet then used in space for construction materials or taken back to Earth.

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Asteroid - Wikipedia

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.The larger ones have also been called planetoids.These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disc of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet.

Space-mining may be only a decade away. Really. - The ...

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is for humanity to become a spacefaring species homesteading the solar system. Our mission is to turn thousands of asteroids in refueling stations for NASA and commercial spacecraft opening the high frontier to NASA human exploration and commercial industries beyond imaging satellites and telecommunications.

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U.S., China Space Race To Hunt, Mine Asteroids In Next Five Years

Ye also said to a Chinese state-run science and technology newspaper that the asteroids located near the Earth have "precious metals," according to the South China Morning Post, and that the mining could offset the expensive cost of space exploration.

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NASA Rules Out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid Apophis

Jan 09, 2013 · NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Aphophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036.